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🚨NEW🚨
'Communicating Science During Covid: Trials, Tribulations & Trolls'
@IndependentSage members @chrischirp & @sheencr sit with @allthecitizens' @manasa_nara for a final Q&A on communicating pandemic science, science comms via social media & more.
youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ7dTpz…
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A new short piece by me in the BMJ reflecting on the Module 1 report and how "emergency planning" needs to be incorporated into "everyday planning"
bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q184…
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The best explanation and summary of Long Covid that I've ever read by @trishgreenhalgh , written to coincide with her brilliant Lancet review out today.
tinyurl.com/225bfeu2
New blog post on @trishgreenhalgh latest opus on masks and airborne disease:
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
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This is utterly brilliant, cross-disciplinary, irrefutable, clear, and balanced.
What "evidence based Medicine" ought to be...rather than the idolatry surrounding often-flawed RCTs and outright quackery we've been forced to put up with from certain quarters...😉
#MasksWork
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New post by @martinmckee explaining the *truth* about the WHO pandemic treaty - including why it's absolutely needed and debunking all the pernicious disinformation going round, including by Farage and others
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
New post by @martinmckee explaining the *truth* about the WHO pandemic treaty - including why it's absolutely needed and debunking all the pernicious disinformation going round, including by Farage and others
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
New post from @chrischirp & @sheencr about the AZ vaccine, based on their New Statesman article this week.
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
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The latest Covid situation from Bob Hawkins is here:
tinyurl.com/ynw359ta
TLDR: definitely in a new wave.
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Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today.
TLDR there isn't a new "smoking gun", the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved millions of lives globally, there are better vax out there now, adapted to new variants 1/9
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Elsewhere in the multiverse there's a reality where the next pandemic threat is under control.
Here, governments recognised that it was their moral duty to ensure that the suffering and pain of those affected, both directly and indirectly, mattered more than the prior status quo.
Latest covid stats in England from Bob Hawkins here!
independentsage.substack.com…
includes good news on vaccine uptake this spring.
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My new post on Covid in the UK (low), potential for a new wave (high) and potential for a new bird flu pandemic (too high for comfort).
open.substack.com/pub/christ…
We've got two new posts this week!
@sheencr disscussing vaccine equity:
independentsage.substack.com…
and Bob Hawkins with the latest Covid update (TLDR - things still ok for now, but less data).
independentsage.substack.com…
Four years on from our first wave, here is a brilliant examination by @globalhlthtwit of the failures of the UK pandemic response in 2020 - emphasising that we did NOT need hindsight to have responded differently.
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
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Covid admissions to hospital in England have fallen again over the most recent week and are as low as they've been since last summer.
New! @SGriffin_Lab taking us back to pandemic basics: viruses, immunity, mitigations and the future!
have a read!
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
Hello!
Our live briefings may have stopped, but we haven't!
We've started a (free) Substack - subscribe now to get regular info about all aspects of the pandemic from Indie SAGE members :-)
open.substack.com/pub/indepe…
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🚨NEW🚨
'Communicating Science During Covid: Trials, Tribulations & Trolls'
Our journalist @manasa_nara in conversation with @chrischirp & @sheencr on role of @IndependentSage in communicating pandemic science, science comms via social media & more.
youtube.com/watch?v=AsZ7dTpz…